Hollywood Needs A 10-year Moratorium On Stories About Barack Obama

Alyssa Rosenberg, Denver Post: Movies
Thu, 03/23/2017 - 3:40pm

By Alyssa Rosenberg, The Washington Post The entertainment industry gives the go-ahead to a lot of frustrating projects, but rarely has my head descended to my desk as rapidly as when I learned that in addition to the two Barack Obama biopics that were released before he left office, we’re now going to get a workplace comedy set in the Obama White House. It’s not merely that the rush to make Obama, or even Obama-adjacent, projects reinforces the perception that the entertainment industry is in thrall to the 44th president.

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